Non-refillable bottle.



No. 872,913.' PATENTED DEC. 3, 1907.

P..DWYER L J. OTTMANN. NON-REPILLABLE BOTTLE.

APPLIoATIoy FILED APRA, 1907.

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NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

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Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 3, 1907.

Application filed April 4, 1907. Serial No. 366,295.

To all 'whom it may concern.'

Be it known that we, PHILIP DwYER and JACOB OTTMANN, both citizens of theUnited States, and residents of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Non-Refillable Bottle, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention has for its obj ect to provide means adapted to prevent a bottle from being reiilled, and consists of the device hereinafter described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which drawings Figure 1 is a vertical section on the line 1 1 of Fig. 3, of a device embodying our invention applied to the neck of a bottle; Fig. 2 is a vertical section partly in side elevation, of a tube embodying our invention; Fig. 3 is a horizontal section, taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1; and Fig. 4 is a horizontal section, taken on the line 4 4 of Fig. 2.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

As illustrated in the drawings, 1 represents the neck of a bottle, which may be of ordinary construction, within which is arranged a tube bent to form a loop, consisting of legs 3 and 4 and an intermediate section 5 joined to said legs by means of bends 6 and 7. The leg 3 and intermediate section 5 are each provided with valve seats 8 and 9 respectively, off-set from the inner wall of the tube and adapted to receive conical valves 10 and 11 constructed with converging side walls so as to make the valves self-centering in their respective seats. The valves 10 and 11 have a limited free movement in the tube, which movement is controlled by means of stops 12 and 13 formed by compressing inward the side walls of the tube. The ends of the legs 3 and 4 are preferably provided with flaring mouths 14 and 15 respectively, having connected therewith a vent tubeA 19 provided with a valve 20 arranged with its pointed end facing the mouth 14 of the main tube. Vhen in use the flaring mouth 14 of the leg 8 is arranged inner-most in the neck and the end 15 outermost. The valve seats 8 and 9, and the valves 10 and 11 are so constructed and arranged that the pointed end of the valve 10 faces in the direction of the flaring mouth 14 of the tube, while the reduced end of the valve 11 extends in the direction of the outer end 15 of the tube. The tube is arranged within the neck of the bottle and secured therein by means of a body of cement or other material 16, the upper end 17 of which is preferably stopped short of the outer end of the neck so as to permit a cork 18 to be inserted in the head of the neck, as in bottles of ordinary construction. The means whereby the tube is secured within the neck of the bottle is not material to our invention however and any other means having similar capabilitics may, therefore, be employed if desired.

When the device is in use the bottle is first filled and the tube with its binding is inserted in the neck of the bottle and sealed therein. When the bottle is inverted the liquid tlierein passes through the flaring mouth 14 of the tube and past the valve 10 and into the central section 5 of the tube, thereby lifting the valve 11 from its seat and permitting the liquid to pass around the bend 7 and through the outer section or leg 4 of the tube. If the bottle is arranged in an upright position, however, the liquid cannot be passed into the bottle through the end 15 of the tube for the reason that the valve 10 is then closed on its seat.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A bottle having its neck provided with a discharge tube having a central loop and end sections, and provided with oppositely disposed valve seats formed in the central and inner end section, and self centering valves adapted to bear on said seats and eX- tending in opposite directions.

2. A bottle having a neck provided witha tube bent to form a loop, comprising a central and end sections, the central and one of the end sections being provided with opposi'tely disposed valve seats, and stops spaced from said seats, and self centering valves facing in opposite directions adapted to bear on said seats.

3. A bottle having its neck provided with a tube bent to form a loop, comprising a central and end sections, the central and the inner end section being provided with valve seats facing in opposite directions and provided with stops spaced from said valve seats, the` inner end section being provided with a flaring mouth, and self-centering valves facing in opposite directions adapted to bear against said seats.

4. A bottle having its neck provided with a tube arranged therein terminating at its outer end short of the extremity of said neck, end comprising loop forming a cennames to this specification in the presence of tml and end poftions, tie zentrlall and innlei` tWo subscribing Witnesses.

end ortion bein rovi e Wit o osite y dispsed Valve segas and stops spalgd from 5 said seats, and self centering valves facing in l i opposite directions and adapted to bear on Witnesses: said seats. ROBERT W. HARDIE,

In testimony whereof We have signed our JOI-IN P. DAVIS. 

